When Susan Howe visited us last spring, we were ready. So ready! Such a classic Writers House scene: the edgy and famously "difficult" poet (=supposedly difficult to read) is coming to spend time with us and we not only read the poetry, and talk it through until we get it; but, more, we make T-shirts and feel, well, the sheer singularity of the context. Writers House Fellows, every spring, every single spring since 1999: we are starting up again and this spring we'll be spending time with Susan Cheever in February, Edward Albee in March, and Marjorie Perloff in April.
Friday, January 14, 2011
ah, the singularity of the Writers House scene
When Susan Howe visited us last spring, we were ready. So ready! Such a classic Writers House scene: the edgy and famously "difficult" poet (=supposedly difficult to read) is coming to spend time with us and we not only read the poetry, and talk it through until we get it; but, more, we make T-shirts and feel, well, the sheer singularity of the context. Writers House Fellows, every spring, every single spring since 1999: we are starting up again and this spring we'll be spending time with Susan Cheever in February, Edward Albee in March, and Marjorie Perloff in April.
